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The Pulitzer Prize for Drama was first awarded in 1918. Unlike the majority of the other Pulitzer Prizes, the eligibility period for the drama prize runs from March 2 to March 1, rather than being the calendar year. The drama jury, which consists of one academic and four critics, attends plays in New York and in regional theaters. The Pulitzer board has the authority to overrule the jury's choice, however, as happened in 1986 when the jury chose the CIVIL warS to receive the prize, but due to the board's opposition no award was given.

The award goes to the playwright, although production of the play is also taken into account.

• 2006: no award given
• 2005: John Patrick Shanley, Doubt, a parable.
• 2004: Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
• 2003: Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
• 2002: Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
• 2001: David Auburn, Proof
• 2000: Donald Margulies, Dinner With Friends
• 1999: Margaret Edson, Wit
• 1998: Paula Vogel, How I Learned To Drive
• 1997: no award given
• 1996: Jonathan Larson, Rent
• 1995: Horton Foote, The Young Man From Atlanta
• 1994: Edward Albee, Three Tall Women
• 1993: Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
• 1992: Robert Schenkkan, The Kentucky Cycle
• 1991: Neil Simon, Lost in Yonkers
• 1990: August Wilson, The Piano Lesson
• 1989: Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles
• 1988: Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy
• 1987: August Wilson, Fences
• 1986: no award given
• 1985: James Lapine (book) and Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics), Sunday in the Park with George
• 1984: David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
• 1983: Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother
• 1982: Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play
• 1981: Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart
• 1980: Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly
• 1979: Sam Shepard, Buried Child
• 1978: Donald L. Coburn, The Gin Game
• 1977: Michael Cristofer, The Shadow Box
• 1976: Michael Bennett (concept, choreography, and direction), Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood, Jr. (book), Marvin Hamlisch (music) and Edward Kleban (lyrics), A Chorus Line
• 1975: Edward Albee, Seascape
• 1974: no award given
• 1973: Jason Miller, That Championship Season
• 1972: no award given
• 1971: Paul Zindel, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
• 1970: Charles Gordone, No Place To Be Somebody
• 1969: Howard Sackler, The Great White Hope
• 1968: no award given
• 1967: Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance
• 1966: no award given
• 1965: Frank D. Gilroy, The Subject Was Roses
• 1964: no award given
• 1963: no award given
• 1962: Frank Loesser (music and lyrics) and Abe Burrows (book), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
• 1961: Tad Mosel, All The Way Home
• 1960: Jerome Weidman and George Abbott (book) Jerry Bock (music), and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), Fiorello!
• 1959: Archibald MacLeish, J.B.
• 1958: Ketti Frings, Look Homeward, Angel
• 1957: Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
• 1956: Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, Diary of Anne Frank
• 1955: Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• 1954: John Patrick, The Teahouse of the August Moon
• 1953: William Inge, Picnic
• 1952: Joseph Kramm, The Shrike
• 1951: no award given
• 1950: Richard Rodgers (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Joshua Logan (book), South Pacific
• 1949: Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
• 1948: Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
• 1947: no award given
• 1946: Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay, State of the Union
• 1945: Mary Coyle Chase, Harvey
• 1944: no award given
• 1943: Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth
• 1942: no award given
• 1941: Robert E. Sherwood, There Shall Be No Night
• 1940: William Saroyan, The Time of Your Life
• 1939: Robert E. Sherwood, Abe Lincoln in Illinois
• 1938: Thornton Wilder, Our Town
• 1937: Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman, You Can't Take It With You
• 1936: Robert E. Sherwood, Idiot's Delight
• 1935: Zoe Akins, The Old Maid
• 1934: Sidney Kingsley, Men in White
• 1933: Maxwell Anderson, Both Your Houses
• 1932: George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, Ira Gershwin, Of Thee I Sing
• 1931: Susan Glaspell, Alison's House
• 1930: Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures
• 1929: Elmer Rice, Street Scene
• 1928: Eugene O'Neill, Strange Interlude
• 1927: Paul Green, In Abraham's Bosom
• 1926: George Kelly, Craig's Wife
• 1925: Sidney Howard, They Knew What They Wanted
• 1924: Hatcher Hughes, Hell-Bent for Heaven
• 1923: Owen Davis, Icebound
• 1922: Eugene O'Neill, Anna Christie
• 1921: Zona Gale, Miss Lulu Bett
• 1920: Eugene O'Neill, Beyond the Horizon
• 1919: no award given
• 1918: Jesse Lynch Williams, Why Marry?

Only a few playwrights have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama more than once.

• Eugene O'Neill has won the prize four times-- more than any other playwright. He won in 1920, 1922, 1928, and 1957.
• George S. Kaufman won the award twice, once in 1932 and once in 1937. Both times he won the award for a collaborative work.
• Robert E. Sherwood won the award in 1936, 1939, and 1941.
• Thornton Wilder received the award in 1938 and 1943.
• Tennessee Williams won the award in 1948 and 1955.
• Edward Albee was the last playwright to win the Pulitzer for Drama multiple times. He won the award in 1967, 1975 and 1994.